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If Sheila Heti is any indication, Generation Y is going to keep its elders on their toes. Born in the disco era, this 25-year-old Toronto native has already been published in of-the-moment literary journal McSweeney's and seen her stories translated into German, Spanish, French and Dutch. McSweeney's has even issued a book of Heti's work, "The Middle Stories" (McSweeney's Books, $15). Heti's secret? For one, she started young. While still in her teens, she got a contract from Random House to edit a collection of writing by other teen girls.

By Susan Berkson. Special to the Tribune. and Susan Berkson is a free-lance writer in Minneapolis | November 27, 1994

Anna Quindlen-we're going to miss you. Last month The New York Times announced that syndicated columnist Anna Quindlen would cease writing her op-ed column at the end of the year to devote herself to fiction writing. Aptly named "Public and Private," Quindlen's column helped expand the editorial agenda, connecting the dots between the personal and the political. Quindlen deftly covered the complex choices women face, the daily balancing act between work and children and parents and community.

Feminism Is Not the Story of My Life How Today's Feminist Elite Has Lost Touch With the Real Concerns of Women By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 288 pages, $23.95 The title of historian Elizabeth Fox-Genovese's latest book is drawn from one of her interviews with 40 diverse but unidentified women who, she writes, all "reject feminism because of what they perceive as its radical social and economic agenda."...

British author Nick Hornby, with his shaved head and penchant for cigarettes, is the sort of working-class bloke who peppers the pages of his book "Fever Pitch," about rabid soccer fandom. On Saturday, though, Hornby got nothing less than star treatment. Admirers packed seats and crowded on the floor of an oppressively hot tent, awaiting Hornby's talk at this weekend's 2005 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair. With 10 minutes to go before his 1 p.m. appearance, volunteers were shooing fans from the aisles for creating a fire hazard.

Rosie O'Donnell may not end up saving the Oprah Winfrey Network, a tall order even for, say, Oprah Winfrey. And that fancy house O'Donnell bought in the Wrigleyville neighborhood may be back on the market soon enough. But if "The Rosie Show," her new, nightly talk show taping in Winfrey's former Near West Side studio, does not find ratings success, it won't be because O'Donnell allowed anybody to put Baby in a corner. Unbowed by her flameout on "The View," her flailing NBC variety show or the fizzling of her mainstream popularity following the rapid rise of her late-1990s daytime talk show, O'Donnell is again serving TV audiences concentrated doses of Rosie, this time hosting the new-season flagship on Winfrey's troubled, first-year cable venture.

Women Lawyers: Rewriting the Rules By Mona Harrington Knopf, 265 pages, $23.50 The current state of feminism is unsatisfactory. Complaints about sexist toys are tiresome rehashes of past battles. Catharine MacKinnon is too intellectual and Naomi Wolf seems young. Stuck in a funk of skepticism, a reader might pick up a book titled "Women Lawyers" hoping only for some juicy stories about women selling out. The reader won't be disappointed but might be surprised; "Women Lawyers" is a fascinating look at the problems women lawyers face and the implications their travails have for us all. In the first part of the book, author Mona Harrington paints a devastating picture of big corporate law firms as seedbeds of macho capitalism.

'AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL' . In the early '90s, Naomi Wolf published a book called "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women." All these years later, director Darryl Roberts has finally gotten the message: Women suffer all sorts of indignities, anxieties and pain in our futile attempts to achieve a narrow, twisted standard of attractiveness. And on behalf of every woman who's ever turned down that second piece of cake or spent far too much on anti-aging creams, I want to say: Welcome, Darryl.

I Don't Know But I've Been Told By Raul Correa (Perennial $12.95) A novel about an American soldier and the experience in Panama that changed his life. Bad Blood By Lorna Sage (Perennial $13.95) In this Whitbread Award-winning memoir, the author tells the story of three generations of her family and of her own escape from a confining childhood in postwar Britain. White Darkness By Steven D. Salinger (New American Library $13.95) The lives of two men in New York and Haiti come together unexpectedly in this thriller.

For months, organizers promoted this year's Miss Grayslake contest with zeal. They hung posters at local businesses, published notices in the town newspaper and gave recruiting pep talks at Grayslake Community High. After all that, and a weeklong extension of the entry deadline, three women requested applications. Two filled them out. Linda Wegge Slipke, an accountant who was the pageant's co-director, said she couldn`t very well put on a pageant that could be decided by a coin toss.

Two more Chicago high schools are being transformed into: A. Lofts B. Gaps C. Sports bars D. Military academies (Perspective section, page 1) 1. A Tribune poll found that only this group supported naming federal buildings or schools after President Clinton: A. African-Americans B. Caucasian-Americans C. Asian-Americans D. Intern-Americans 2. Cook County had the 2nd-highest incidence of this last year, second only to Baltimore County: A. Indicted officials B. Corpses who vote C. Cases of crabs D. Cases of syphilis 3. Donald Trump suggested this as a way to pay down the national debt: A. A talk-show proliferation fee B. A handshake penalty C. A soak-the-rich tax D. A multiple-marriage mortgage 4. Health workers are warning that the British are catching up to Americans when it comes to: A. The Pashmina craze B. Cleaning their teeth C. Bangers and mash D. Being fat 5. Michael Jordan raised the hopes of many when he: A. Managed to stay out of the public eye for three straight days B. Announced he was joining the professional golf tour C. Practiced with the Bulls D. Said he would not star in "Space Jam II" 6. The auction of 140 "Cows on Parade" raised this amount for charities: A. $3.4 billion B. $3.4 million C. $34,000 D. $340 7. A recently discovered dinosaur species evolved little during its existence...